Hi Everyone!

Will try to make this short-I was a hairstylist and nail tech (lots of chemicals) for 16 yrs--after about ten years I started to suffer from asthma and mild pain in the bottoms of my feet. Both over time worsened. My foot pain would come in spells that would last for a few months and be gone for maybe a few weeks. I decided to go to college and learn something new to get out of that business really thinking and feeling that one day I would not be able to walk-that is how bad the bottoms of my feet had started to hurt (every part of my foot that touched the floor felt as though it had been pounded with a hammer). They would swell and be very, vey red.
So, I changed careers-went to a desk job--things felt "better" unless I did too much on my time off--though my feet and legs started to feel "ansy" while seated.
THEN--I got really sick with bronchitis and was hospitalized for 5 days. Doped up with steroids--which I feel do something terrible to me--along with other meds.
Since then, my body has gone haywire!!! The pain in my feet has worsened and is constant, and now is going up my legs and is causing major weakness. I have burning in my face, ears, backs of arms(that causes redness and heat to the touch),---sudden redness, swelling and numbness in last half of hands and fingers that comes and goes---these symptoms have gotten some better since seeing my neurologist and being put on Nuerontin, Lamictal, Clonipan(sp), and (for severe migraines)Topamax(sp??).I also have a rash on my outer forearm that comes up only if I'm under a lot of stress. Now, to add to it I am having spots in various places that feels like cigarette burns (you can actually see marks), the steering wheel burns my hands, along with touching any other object to my skin for any length of time. I cannot sit upright in a chair for very long, can't stand or walk for very long--
I feel exhausted all the time--and cannot even clean my own home for more than 30-40 minutes at a time because of the extreme pain in my feet and lower legs and also because of weakness.

I do not have diabetes--been tested-4hr--came out great. MRI of brain ok- except for sinus disease. Have Slight Spondylosis no nerve involvement. Hd plenty of bloodwork--with no results.

Neuro says its Peripheral Neuropathy--but he is sending me to another specialist at Emory University and is suggesting a possible nerve biopsy. I guess really just looking for the correct treatment....I really don't know.

Has ANYONE been through anything similar?? Or am I just out of luck? I feel like I'm dealing with more than just one thing--I guess because there is just so much to it.

SOMEBODY HELP!!

guess that wasn't short.